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Climate Change and Cultural KnowledgeWhen: Saturday June 20, 9.30am to 4.00pm Where: The TopTent at the Apollonian Hotel, Boreen Point Bookings: Noosa Regional Gallery - 5449 5340
Climate Change and Cultural Knowledge will explore climate change and perceptions and responses to it by indigenous peoples from Pacific cultures. How do the mental models of indigenous culture leaders/thinkers provide additional and important sources of knowledge and information for understanding and managing climate change? Climate and contemporary society Graeme Taylor, author of The Evolutionary Edge, will ask what has been the influence and impact of our contemporary society on climate since the industrial revolution? The discussion will explore our deep and prevailing assumptions about economic growth, consumption, wellbeing, ownership, spirituality and happiness and the role of these assumptions and attitudes towards nature and culture. Systems Thinking Professors Ockie Bosch and Kambiz Maani from the University of Queensland will introduce and demonstrate the value of systems thinking principles and applications to address climate change and other complex environmental problems. They will provide an introduction to methods and concepts of systems thinking and the value they bring to constructing mental models about the complex and interrelated world we live in with reference to the global climatic system. Climate and livelihoods Susan Cochrane, Sione Dudley and Eve Fesl will discuss the impact of the weather on indigenous cultures, including Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu and the Takuu Mortlock Islands. Documentary New Zealand photojournalist Jocelyn Carlin will join ex-ABC journalist Dr Mark Hayes in presenting for the first time the documentary, The Disappearing of Tuvalu: Trouble in Paradise. Ms Carlin has documented the rising seas of the Pacific Islands and the drastic impact of the high tides on the lifestyles of the people. Discussion How can challenges arising from climate change be approached given what we know about the relationship between the climate, human cultural systems and mental models they contain? This session teases out the most critical issues from the presentations to distil a body of information to be fed back to the artists working on the Floating Land Program, and fed into the remaining Floating Land forums - particularly the Shifting Paradigms: nature and culture forum. Climate Change & Cultural Knowledge forum
 A man walks through king tide floodwaters to his home in the taisala (Jocelyn Carlin 2006) |
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